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  1. Re:Done later anyway on Guy Fawkes' Explosion Would Have Devasted London · · Score: 0

    Would the Romans have been called in to re-start the city?

  2. Re:Sometimes the experts know what they are doing. on Guy Fawkes' Explosion Would Have Devasted London · · Score: 1
    Well, I will join you all this thread who are breaking the /. tradition by reading the article before posting.

    What I found absoutly astonishing is that the reporter needed a scientist to give us this gem:
    We know that the more explosive we have the more energy will be released when the charge is set off.
    Wow doc! Thanks for the hot tip!
  3. Maybe it would be faster for me to learn Japanese? on Ghost In The Shell 2: Innocence · · Score: 2, Funny

    Maybe it would be faster for me to learn Japanese?

    So long as you are not turning Japanese that will be fine.

  4. Re:Yeah, I've done this. on Spammed by Bluetooth · · Score: 3, Funny

    I've used this feature also to send quick notes to cow-orkers at the office

    Easily identified by their Gateway workstations.

  5. Re:Back when I was a kid on SeattleWireless TV Broadcasts Again · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Alpine had an automobile deck years ago that had recording from air capability. Combine that with auto-side select, etc and you have an analog version of a 90 min. loop mp3 setup. No telling what is available but I wouldn't be surprised if somebody's home-brew car system has something like this already worked out.

  6. Re:Back when I was a kid on SeattleWireless TV Broadcasts Again · · Score: 1

    Yea, when my son was around that age he was so used to me re-winding movies and stepping through frame-by-frame to see certain FX he would want me to re-wind the news too.

  7. Back when I was a kid on SeattleWireless TV Broadcasts Again · · Score: 4, Funny

    Back in the olden-days all of our TV channels came to us via wireless. It was a great improvement having moving pictures to go with the sound.

    Now we have the cable, like everybody else, but it doesn't sound like you youngsters know that there was TV before the cable.

  8. Re:ACLU to help out? on Symantec Says No To Pro-Gun Sites · · Score: 1

    Uh, their stance is that the 2nd Amendment doesn't guarantee universal gun
    ownership - as seen in the post you're quoting..


    Yep, I was right the first time and nothing changes here.

    That Amendment guarantees no right whatsoever.

    If you read the damn thing it restricts the government.

    Now, run along until you leard to read.

  9. Re:ACLU to help out? on Symantec Says No To Pro-Gun Sites · · Score: 1

    Other than your "mistaken use of words" being your whole arguement your post was still clueless. Shove the spelling up your ass.

  10. Re:ACLU to help out? on Symantec Says No To Pro-Gun Sites · · Score: 1

    If you find the Constitutioon granting rights I am sure you can basterdize the term "nitpick".

  11. Re:ACLU to help out? on Symantec Says No To Pro-Gun Sites · · Score: 1

    You sound a little confused. The Constution does not give us any rights, it goves the government ENUMERATED powers. Where do you see an enumerated power to regulate gun ownershp? Please give a full quote.

    BTW, the ACLU quote proves the author of the quote is not even on a 3rd grade US reading level.

  12. Re:ACLU to help out? on Symantec Says No To Pro-Gun Sites · · Score: 1

    Uh, their stance is that the 2nd Amendment doesn't grant universal gun ownership - as seen in the post you're quoting..

    IF that were the case you would be right, but that Amendment grants no rights it is a limitation on government as it the rest of the Constitution.

    Now, when you and the ACLU learn to read com on back and chat, l?

  13. Re:ACLU to help out? on Symantec Says No To Pro-Gun Sites · · Score: 1

    The ACLU has defended groups from one end of the political spectrum to the other

    Past tense is perfectly accurate, but your statement ceases to reflect the current state of affairs right there.

    The ACLU, currently, represents the extream left. (that is a preiod)

  14. Re:Where to really look... on Time-travel Spammer Strikes Back · · Score: 5, Funny

    a hundred million years or so and will continue only for a few hundred million more - quite a small window in the history

    Statements like this are why I never lend money to anybody in Astronomy or Geology.

  15. Re:E-mail tax...Micropayments to Recipients on Time-travel Spammer Strikes Back · · Score: 1

    Micropayments? NO! Microwaves!

    I microwave my e-mail before reading to kill anthrax. It also gets rid of all of the spam too!

  16. Re:You know who we need right now? on Time-travel Spammer Strikes Back · · Score: 1

    Yea, but all we got was a bunch of Noam Chomsky imitators.

  17. Re:more tragic than funny on Time-travel Spammer Strikes Back · · Score: 1

    (off topic, but you'd think it obvious that any time machine breakthrough would be all over the news right! ; i guess basic rationality doesn't come into this though. scary.)

    Just like the 50 MPG fuel-injectors?

    Just like no-cost phone service?

    Just like Al Gore winning the election?

    Just like $10 super computers?

    It's the greedy corporations keeping all of this out of the news, I heard it on Pacifica Radio, also being silenced by GreedyCorp!

  18. Re:Unfortunately it is the case on Scamming Spammer Hooks the Wrong Person · · Score: 2

    Same thoughts I had.

    I used to send crap like this to the FTC all of the time, but now I just send it to them if I accidentally open one instead of deleting. If I am using AOL I ureport the spam using the AOL utility. Does not seem to slow it down one bit.

  19. Re:Thank God we're seeing more of this on Man Arrested in Australia Over Nigerian E-mail Scam · · Score: 3, Funny

    It is that easy to get a hot chick with money? Forget about those rich russina woman, I am going American!

  20. Re:Credit on U.S. Continues Biological Warfare Research · · Score: 1

    I think you may be missing his point. To those who want a landmine ban the North Koreans and the Cubans are "the good guys" and banning landmines will assist their invasion plans (they call it "liberation"). Remember the "nuclear freeze" bunch? Same folk, same side, different century.

  21. Re:Yeah... on Info Glut - Five Exabytes of Data Created in 2002 · · Score: 1

    Of that, how many PFUs of spam does it contain?

  22. Re:scarcity on The Problem With Abundance · · Score: 1

    The problem is much of this was bought with cheap fossil fuel. That fuel isn't going to be cheap much longer. When that happens it will soon play Hell with the global economy including making food and fossil fuel derived fertilizer too expensive for a good sized hunk of the world's population.

    Well, I have been hearing this for about 30 years and the available petroleum supply keeps increasing and getting cheaper too. Actually, it immediately was so cheap that it displaced whale oil and coal gas as transportable fuel then went on to conqor coal itself.

    Now, in England alone there is enough coal to supply the world with it's current energy needs for over 100 years and the US coal reserves can supply the US for over 400 years at current energy consumption rates.

    Let's not forget the natural gas (no it is NOT methane (irritation firom a much earlier discussion)) that is burnt off rather than being used for any productive purpose right now.

    With all fo that, I really fail to see the point in anybody theorizing that we are "running out" of any fossile fuel any time soon.

  23. Re:scarcity on The Problem With Abundance · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Well, that population limitation for one, but maybe I am being picky :-)

  24. Re:scarcity on The Problem With Abundance · · Score: 0, Insightful

    Oh yes, my mistake, I forgot about all of that starvation in Italy and Ireland, silly me.

    Over populated planet? The evidence is against you. Food production has outstripped population growth throughout the recorded history of either. Not one place on earth are farmers starving while people in the cities they serve getting fat. Not even in North Korea (where everybody not "connected" is starving).

    Then again, a Chinese-Socialist system that you seem to lean toward created a massive famine in China during the 1960's.

    So, please, look at the real world and skip the propoganda.

  25. Re:scarcity on The Problem With Abundance · · Score: 1

    You are describing a scarcity of knowledge and general good sense, not a scarcity of healthcare or housing.

    Please, stop perpetuating this myth that the only place one can do a pushup is at a healthclub. Please stop spreading the rumor that manual labor is not a substitute for a personal trainer. I know I have been on both sides of that one. Oops, no I have never paid money to do a pushup or use a machine that does not do any redeeming work.

    As far as "healthcare" goes, if you can afford it you will be charged for it. If you can not afford it you go to the emergency room and get treated free. I know I have been on both sides. BTW, now that I have pretty good health insurance I never use it anyway.